Tuesday, 21 July 2015
I was out early, sweat sweat. Not bragging. It’s just the way it is. We got a pop-up shower yesterday, so steaminess conditions were/are elevated.
Like this atypically tall crepe myrtle very much. Most people butcher them periodically, leaving ugly stubs to generate new shoots. Nice to see that they can achieve heights taller than a one-story house.
Monday, 20 July 2015
Archaeologists use the term activity area for places where people do the same activities over and over. Think of kitchens…. Many types of activities have obvious and easily recognized suites of artifacts and features.
The upper photo features a front porch, a place for a wide variety of activities such as relaxing, child play, and perhaps shelling peas. This is a new porch, added to the house this spring…and it matches…nice. The second photo shows evidence of lots of ball-play. Look at all the different colors of balls! More relaxation activities….
Sunday, 19 July 2015
When I left this morning, this leaf was perched beneath a layer of dew on our slanty Prius windshield (gazing skyward?). This shot, however, is from when I returned from my walk…and, actually, the leaf isn’t any drier or less flat than when I left, although my impression at the time was that it was. (Photographic comparison/proof….)
The okra is another matter. I spotted this fine specimen in a little raised-bed garden on a verge, a fine patch of green-ness, but not a big enough garden to feed a family even for a long weekend. Still, this okra is firmly in its upright and locked position…in typical okra style….
I hope I don’t sound critical, as I love to see produce coming along right by the sidewalk.
City lights…the vegetative kind….
Saturday, 18 July 2015
I couldn’t choose.
I rather like the “life” in the sprinkler-cement-rabbit shot. I also like the starkness and angularity of the patio area of the closed burger place.
Friday, 17 July 2015
I did get out early in…The Heat…and…The Humidity. Made it a break-in expedition…taking it slowly.
Different flowers are in bloom….
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Craving veggies. Tomato-veggie soup for lunch. Huge tofu stir-fry for dinner.
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
This was after I made the coffee, and before we woofed down the delicious Carol-muffins.
Yesterday we had a choice to make: one or two days. Of travel to ATL, that is.
I think we were leaning ever so slightly toward a push of making it a one-day, long-and-into-the-night run. However, the weather and a couple of minor traffic snafus, plus some simple curiosity meant we were not making fast time. But we were having fine, albeit short-term, “local” adventures.
The Guru found us an historic overnight. At a real hotel. As in, the room charge doesn’t include more than coffee. In the room and in the lobby. Other foods, they charge more for.
However, we had a double-load of Carol-love-muffins, which, with the hotel coffee offering made a slamming good breakfast. Youall should be so lucky!
We spent the day in relatively slow-drive mode, mostly avoiding big ol’ I75, taking little side roads, which slowed us less than you think, because our route was shorter/straighter. (Side result: gas mileage improved throughout the day!)
Actual homecoming relatively uneventful, except that you must realize that the best way to clean accumulated weird things from your freezer is not to leave the freezer-drawer-door cracked open while you’re off on vacation, so that everything “down there” melts a wee bit too much for way too long. Yuck. But cleaned up now.
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Seems like the common theme today was rain cells. We went through three different storm fronts, with varying degrees of raininess and storminess.
In one case, we got little of the storminess as we were following the orange/red zone…and everywhere in the fading drippiness we saw leaves and sticks and branches and trees. And hillsides with temporary waterfalls, ditches full of running beige water, and water crossing the road a few places.
We were lucky that that our route just happened to avoid the worst.
We began our day with a little garden tour from MzCarol (including teensy pickle-dukes). She also gave us several dozen fresh, healthy, handmade Carol-love-muffins. Mmm. If you’re nice, we’ll share!
Next, we dropped in on the UM alumni art show, to see a SeeingMind piece…which was hung behind the square history-painting past the title-cube-column. Sorry, additional photos are on a different camera, and its cables are in the car across a rainy parking lot…. (Say: lazy?)
Drifting farther south, we stopped in Fostoria, just ahead of another line of rain-cells. This welder was fixing something at the track-crossing. He had a watch-buddy, who actively looked for trains, first this way, then that…with a hand held up to protect his eyes from the welding-brilliance.
Now, we’re taking refuge in an historic hotel, and see that there’s another (different) line of storms over ATL…I work at not becoming panicky.
Monday, 13 July 2015
We got down south of the intermittent showers zone and stopped at an elevated rest area! In a different direction the view was of the building that had the Man Eating Clam—or where said clam used to reside…clam is no longer featured on promotional signs, leading us to speculate that the tide?? claimed him/her.
We’ve also left our cozy nook in the orchard and surrounded by lupines…I liked the veins and shades of this one in particular (apologies for the strange top-down viewpoint). The grass is taller than I remember the last few years, and the lupines sometimes only reached Most of The Way up the grass-stems.
Sunday, 12 July 2015
Let’s see. Where to start.
I went down to the beach and thought about how this camera is good at shooting fast, and crouched down and caught a few moments when the waves were coming toward the beach, to crash on the sand.
Now, there wasn’t that much wind behind the wave action, but it sure made for fun shooting.
Mind you, that isn’t the curvature of the earth (I’m pretty sure) recorded in the horizon, but the curvature the lens created….
I cleared out around the “wild” rose and it’s liberated (for the time being) from the grass…. I also found one (!!) foxglove in bloom (not enough light), and I think one neighboring foxglove plant, just leaves, no flower shoot.
Like the nearby rhubarb plants, they need more light.
Next garden chore…plant-liberation movement….
I also found this…well, in my insect-ignorance, I’d call it “a grasshopper.” Interesting color patterns on his/her “side.”
Parked on a mint plant.
Only it’s not my favorite mint for eating, but botanically it IS a mint….
Which means it has square stems….